I’m becoming a huge fan [not "fanboi"] of the iPhone, and as I run amuck in the AppStore, I find some great musical instruments. I have always wanted to learn the piano, the acoustic guitar, the electric guitar, the violin, and the saxophone. The first three have a large presence in the AppStore… the last relies on wind, and short of the Ocarina [Smule makes that one], it is pretty tough to translate wind into an effective force through a microphone. The last two haven’t yet make a good performance.
Well, I found Guitar [LE and without the LE], and iShred [LE and without the LE], and PianoStudio, all of which are made by the same company. Frontier Design. Which, by the way, you won’t find on their websites front page for some strange reason even though I would think they are wildly popular. For Guitar, if you manually type it in, you’ll get a dead page without the capitalized “G” which is a configuration problem on their web server.
The point of this post however, isn’t to show you some great iPhone applications, no. It is to signal the end of the conventional instrument as the iPhone becomes more and more “in tune” with those old world tools, like cave paintings… we are possibly moving on. Purists will hate the idea, but when you think about the possibilities with the iPhone alone, you can see that they are just as endless. Choose the song, break down the notes, stick them into little squares, and strum or mash as necessary. It takes the finesse out of the instrumentation, and perhaps the beauty out of the flow of reaching a note on either end of a grand piano… but then again, I can’t carry a piano EVERYWHERE.
I’m playing around with the LE versions of the acoustic and electric guitar [Guitar, iShred; respectively.] and will probably get PianoStudio. I can’t wait for a Violin to show up, nor the Sax. I decided to put my iPhone on the keyboard I have in my office, and I think it is equal to putting the same amount of Earths inside of Jupiter; and about as much gravitation. Strike that, I haven’t gravitated towards the keyboard since coming towards the end of my MBA. The piano is like the Geico stack of money, it looks at me… I hear the music… then keep eating my brownie, saying “If I play now, I’ll put brownie bits all over the keys, and that won’t help me play next time.”
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